Welcome to the Grainger Museum
Percy Aldridge Grainger (1882-1961) was a prolific composer and a virtuoso pianist with an international reputation. Australian-born, he is remembered as his country's greatest composer; in England he is considered an important figure in the preservation and arrangement of English folk song, and in the United States, where he lived most of his life, he is highly regarded as a music educator, composer and arranger of band music. His genius also encompassed an extraordinary facility for languages, a strong talent for design and an innovative approach to museology.
The evidence of his creative life - his thoughts, compositions, recordings, archive and eclectic collection of artifacts - forms the Grainger Collection at the University of Melbourne.
Hoard House: New Issue Available
| The December 2007 issue of Hoard House: News from the Grainger Museum is now available. |  |
The Grainger Museum building is currently closed to the public for major building conservation and maintenance works. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Research enquiries will continue as usual. Further details.